Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

RTP rapidly heats biomass at ambient pressure to generate high yields of pourable, liquid pyrolysis oil. The pyrolysis oil—essentially a bio crude oil—will then be upgraded to green transport fuels using technology developed by UOP working with DOE, the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Lab and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2016

Today, ETBE is only half renewable, as the isobutene used to produce it is derived from oil. The company will then convert the first batches of bio-isobutene to be produced from the Leuna Demo plant into large enough quantities of renewable isooctane for running preliminary engine testing at Audi. million tons per year).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2009

Neste Oil and Stora Enso inaugurated the demonstration plant at Varkaus for biomass to liquids (BtL) production utilizing forestry residues. It will be used to develop technologies and engineering solutions for a commercial-scale plant. Earlier post.) The demonstration facility at Stora Enso Varkaus Mill includes a 12 MW gasifier.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2013

Air Products heralded the successful operation of a US Department of Energy (DOE) demonstration project that will capture approximately one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from hydrogen production for use in an enhanced oil recovery project in which DOE anticipates an additional estimated 1.6-3.1

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2009

The Japan-GTL group includes oil developers Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX) and INPEX Corp; refiners Nippon Oil and Cosmo Oil; engineering firms Chiyoda and Nippon Steel Engineering; and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC), a state-run energy researcher. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

will supplement the current supply of first-generation biofuels (based on sugar, starch and vegetable oils). One plant is to be at the Sofiprotéol site in Venette (Picardy), the other at the Total site in Dunkirk (Etablissement des Flandres, Nord-Pas de Calais). The use of lignocellulosic biomass (wood, straw, plant residues, etc.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PLEXIGLAS) is used for creating sheets, profiles, roofs, soundproof walls, molded components for automotive engineering applications, and backlight units for illuminating flat-screen monitors and televisions. Evonik is one of the largest producers of MMA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

This breakthrough was achieved using a combination of new innovations in catalyst development, advances in catalyst screening, and a highly motived, creative research and engineering team. Siluria has previously announced its partnership with The Linde Group to offer licenses to the ethylene industry worldwide. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

UOP LLC used its renewable jet fuel process technology ( earlier post ) to convert oil from camelina, an inedible plant, to renewable jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Earlier post.). The UOP process produces a green jet fuel that is blended seamlessly with petroleum-based fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Neste Oil’s and Stora Enso’s joint venture, NSE Biofuels Oy ( earlier post ), will begin environmental impact assessments for a commercial-scale biomass-to-liquids (BTL)biorefinery at Porvoo and at Imatra in Finland. The demo facility is being used to develop technologies and engineering solutions for a commercial-scale plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

The ATJ task force consists of technical experts from a wide stakeholder group including jet engine manufacturers, governmental bodies, fuel manufacturers, third-party testing laboratories, academics and airframe manufacturers investigating the requirements for a third major pathway to renewable drop-in jet fuel: the conversion of alcohols.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ). Moreover, Sunflow-D is inherently sulfur-free and has a very high cetane value.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

In 2014, Global Bioenergies signed a collaboration agreement with Audi on the development of bio-isooctane—a high-performance drop-in biofuel for gasoline engines—derived from bio-isobutene. Fifteen million tons of isobutene are derived each year from oil, and converted into fuels, plastics and elastomers. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

liter HEMI V-8 engine and a two-mode hybrid transmission. million from Chrysler Group LLC, was designed to develop vehicles that will be cost efficient for consumers, satisfy safety concerns of daily travel without recharging and help reduce dependence on foreign oil. The powertrain also includes a 5.7-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2009

It was also the first demo flight using a combination of three sustainable biofuel feedstocks—camelina (84%), jatropha (less than 16%), and algae (less than 1%)—as well as the first one using Pratt & Whitney engines. “We 3 engine (middle right), one of the aircraft’s four Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Extensive front-end engineering and design work will now be done to provide a solid foundation for final decision on project procurement planned for the fall of 2010. billion liters) of diesel oil annually, Chemrec says. Globally applied, the technology has the potential to replace about 30 million tonnes (about 9.2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The focus on fuels without the chemicals is missing the point, and missing the model that has worked for over 200 years, and that’s the oil companies. BME utilizes natural strains of bacteria, avoiding for the moment the cost barriers of genetic engineering as well as the longer pathways to commercialization. Kelly Ogilvie.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

a process engineering and design firm ( earlier post ), has filed a patent application for a new technology for making biofuels from microalgae that focuses on the production of fatty acids rather than the extraction of algal oil. de-oiled algal biomass. de-oiled algal biomass. Unitel Technologies, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

M&M), one of India’s leading automotive majors, showcased its hydrogen-fueled combustion engine Alfa 3-wheeler, the Hy-Alfa, at the World Hydrogen Technologies Convention 2009 ( WHTC-2009 ) held in New Delhi last week. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), M&M first introduced the Hy-Alfa in January 2006. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Arc has built the first models of its much-anticipated Arc Sport 500hp electric wake boat, and we got a chance to take it for a quick demo in Long Beach, CA and holy heck, this thing rips. Its cofounders, Mitch Lee and Ryan Cook, are engineers who met while working at Boeing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Six research institutions and seven industrial partners from Europe will participate in the new BioBoost project, aimed at converting residual biomass into energy carriers for the production of high-quality and engine-compatible fuels and chemicals as well as for the generation of electricity and heat.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 19, 2009

The group consists of oil developers Japan Petrol Exploration and INPEX Corp; engineering firms Chiyoda and Nippon Steel Engineering; refiners Nippon Oil and Cosmo Oil; as well as state-run energy researcher Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. The Japan-GTL consortium opened the plant just days ago.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

The selections announced focus on eight approaches to improving vehicle efficiency: Advanced fuels and lubricants : Eight projects awarded to improve fuels and lubricants that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Advanced fuels and lubricants. Grantee Description.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

A demo flight with the new fuel is planned in 12-18 months, with commercialization targeted for 2014. The eight companies selected for the contracts will help the FAA develop and approve alternative, sustainably-sourced “drop-in” jet fuels that can be used without changing aircraft engine systems or airport fueling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Carbonaceous materials—e.g., —Serge Randhava, CEO of Unitel.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Johnson signed a bill at the end of 2020 that would ban the sale of cars that run entirely on internal combustion engines from 2030. To date, the government has supported charging in more than 250,000 homes and workplaces piles,” the UK government said on its website.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2010

where he worked with Continental Airlines in helping to achieve the first US commercial demo flight using an algae-oil blend.). The process employs viable, high growth rate, high oil content algae strains. (Previously, Goodall served as Vice President of Downstream Technology at Sapphire Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Amyris applies synthetic biology to alter the metabolic pathways of microorganisms to engineer “living factories” that transform sugar into any one of 50,000 different molecules used in a wide variety of energy, pharmaceutical and chemical applications. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2009

The study was based on camelina grown in Montana by Sustainable Oils and processed into renewable jet and diesel fuels using UOP hydroprocessing technology. This high number is the result of the unique attributes of the crop—its low fertilizer requirements, high oil yield and the use of co-products, such as meal and biomass, for other uses.”

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In November, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced the launch of the Omniverse Replicator , which Nvidia describes as "an engine for generating synthetic data with ground truth for training AI networks." That’s why people say data is the new oil. I noticed it when we did a demo for [the conference] SIGGRAPH 2017.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

To get better fuel economy during the oil crisis I owned a Mustang II with a V6, but it really wasn’t all that bad. Then a dealer from North San Diego County called and said they had what I was looking for, but it was a demo. Brett : The first thing is the lack of engine noise. I love speed, I love power. Brett and his Mach-E.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

The aim is to demonstrate the integrated production of e-Crude, a synthetic crude oil substitute, by the end of August 2019—the first in a 2-step process of this magnitude made possible by co-electrolysis. This multipliable co-electrolysis module is to be used by Nordic Blue Crude, the Norwegian project partner.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

It started at Stanford The story of the linear generator began nearly two decades ago at Stanford University’s Advanced Energy Systems Laboratory , when mechanical engineering professor Christopher Edwards asked some of us Ph.D. We expect linear generators at many more locations to come on line within the next year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

The facility is targeted to be at Swan Hills, 250 km north of Edmonton, and near the oil sands projects that are scheduled to demand 1 billion ft 3 /day or more of gas for fuel. In 2008, Swan Hills Synfuels proposed a UCG project at a cost of C$400-600 million with a nameplate capacity of 3910,000 m 3 /d of syngas and 2,000 t/d of CO 2.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He understands the trend away from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric-powered vehicles and realizes the tasks involved to decommission ICE infrastructure. He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 21, 2023

liter gasoline engine (405 horsepower and 455 lb-ft of torque) has been tuned to deliver more low-end pulling power and supplants the 6.2-liter liter V8 as the default engine. Even more attention was given to the diesel engines. liter diesel engine, that makes for a maximum towing capacity of 40,000 pounds.

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